U2 is an obvious candidate for The Best Rock Band Of All Time. And they’re not even close to being done making music. A new album comes out on Tuesday.
Yet even as other bands mine U2’s catalog, the band defies its past. After two albums of comparatively straightforward guitar-driven rock, “No Line on the Horizon,†U2’s head-spinning 12th studio album, takes new experimental tangents and redefines the band yet again.Â
How do you reinvent yourself as U2?
Bono had been invited to the annual ecumenical Festival of Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco. He asked the other band members to join him and perhaps do some recording there during a two-week stay. To his surprise they all agreed, as did Mr. Eno and Mr. Lanois
They rented a house and set up equipment in a courtyard open to the sky and started making music with no deadline or goal. “This was far from back to basics,†the Edge said. “This was exploring the fringes.†While hints of triple-time trance rhythms and Arabic vocal inflections occasionally surface, U2 avoided what band members call “musical tourism.â€
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